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... to whom should I address what I still publish on the same argument , but to you
, whose magnanimous councils first opened and unbound the age from a double
bondage under prelatical and regal tyranny ; above our own hopes heartening ...
... to whom should I address what I still publish on the same argument , but to you
, whose magnanimous councils first opened and unbound the age from a double
bondage under prelatical and regal tyranny ; above our own hopes heartening ...
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other countries , that when any one of ours hath attempted in Latin to maintain
this argument of tithes , though a man ... and the avarice of ours ; who through the
love of their old papistical tithes , consider not the weak arguments or rather ...
other countries , that when any one of ours hath attempted in Latin to maintain
this argument of tithes , though a man ... and the avarice of ours ; who through the
love of their old papistical tithes , consider not the weak arguments or rather ...
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... trivial testimonies , by which they might as well prove altars , candles at noon ,
and the greatest part of those superstitions fetched from paganism or Jewism ,
which the papist , inveigled by this fond argument of antiquity , retairis to this day
?
... trivial testimonies , by which they might as well prove altars , candles at noon ,
and the greatest part of those superstitions fetched from paganism or Jewism ,
which the papist , inveigled by this fond argument of antiquity , retairis to this day
?
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Another shift they have to plead , that tithes may be moral as well as the sabbath ,
a tenth of fruits as well as a seventh of days : I answer , that the prelates who urge
this argument have least reason to use it , denying morality in the sabbath ...
Another shift they have to plead , that tithes may be moral as well as the sabbath ,
a tenth of fruits as well as a seventh of days : I answer , that the prelates who urge
this argument have least reason to use it , denying morality in the sabbath ...
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... contrived with all the art and argument that their bellies can invent or suggest ;
yet so ridiculous and presuming on the people's dulness and superstition , as to
think they prove the divine right of their maintenance by Abraham paying tithes to
...
... contrived with all the art and argument that their bellies can invent or suggest ;
yet so ridiculous and presuming on the people's dulness and superstition , as to
think they prove the divine right of their maintenance by Abraham paying tithes to
...
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| Title | The Prose Works of John Milton ... Bohn's Standard Library Volume 3 of The Prose Works of John Milton, John Milton |
| Author | John Milton |
| Publisher | Bell & Daldy, 1872 |
| Original from | National Library of Israel |
| Digitized | 16 Jan 2020 |
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